Lemon talks Russia for the full hour!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It's all anthropology now:
At the start of 2018, we made an historic announcement.

"It's all anthropology now," we charismatically said. Here's what we meant by that statement:

We meant that no sensible person could possibly think, at this point, that anything good will ever come from attempts at analysis or information production.

Anthropologically speaking, our species runs on script alone. It's narrative all the way down.

Next week, we expect to kick off the current new year at this award-winning site. We'll be exploring "Aristotle's error" all year long. Last night, Don Lemon got things started.

"Man [sic] is the rational animal?" That's what Aristotle is constantly said to have said. But the industry known as cable news runs on nothing but novelization. And so it was that, at 11 PM, Lemon was seen saying this:
LEMON (1/31/19): I'm Don Lemon. Major developments tonight in the Russia investigation. So, we're devoting this entire hour to an in-depth look at all things Russia.
So cool! Lemon would be devoting the entire hour to All Things Mother Russia. We'd have none of that bullshit about health care or foreign wars or the ways our public schools work.

It was going to be All Things Russia, for the entire hour! Lemon's bosses had based their decision on the "major developments" which had happened that night in the Russia probe.

This was bullroar all the way down. As he continued, Lemon described the major developments which justified the fact that he would devote the whole hour to the entertaining, true crime drama which dominates CNN.

This was Lemon's fuller statement as he kicked off the hour. He listed three developments:
LEMON: I'm Don Lemon. Major developments tonight in the Russia investigation. So, we're devoting this entire hour to an in-depth look at all things Russia.

First, we have our breaking news for you. The president telling the New York Times he never spoke with Roger Stone about WikiLeaks.

According to Mueller's indictment, a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about what WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton. But Maggie Haberman of the New York Times tells me the president insisted the direction did not come from him.

We're also learning that Mueller's team has seized what they call "voluminous and complex evidence" from Roger Stone. This includes several years worth of information collected from Stone's iCloud accounts, e-mail accounts and hard drives.

Also, tonight, CNN has exclusive reporting that Donald Trump, Jr.'s three mysterious phone calls, before and after the now infamous 2016 Trump tower meeting, were not with his father. This is according to new information obtained by Senate investigators showing the blocked calls from between Don Junior and two of his business associates.

President Trump seizing on the news tonight tweeting, "just out, the big deal very mysterious Don Junior telephone calls after the innocent Trump tower meeting that the media and Dems said were made to his father, me, were just conclusively found not to be made to me. They were made to friends and business associates of Don. Really sad."

Didn't credit us with the reporting because that's where it came from, exclusively from CNN. But it's clearly a positive development for the Trump family. But let's not forget that Trump, Jr. did meet with Russians about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Let's discuss now all of this. Shimon Prokupecz, Susan Glasser, Phil Mudd, and Harry Litman, good evening to all of you.
As it turned out, these major developments weren't "major." It would be a stretch to refer to two of them as"developments" at all.

Trump said he never spoke to Stone concerning WikiLeaks? That's right up there with being told that water was running downhill.

Mueller's team has seized what they call "voluminous and complex evidence" from Roger Stone? Until such time as the material is reviewed, that's a complete and total nothingburger too.

As such, two of these "major developments" were barely "developments" at all. Then, as he completed the rule of three, we found Lemon burying the lede!

Uh-oh! As it now seems to have turned out, those famous phone calls by Donald Trump Junior didn't go to his father after all!

For well over a year, cable script-readers have been suggesting and saying that those phone calls had of course gone to Trump Senior. Now it had apparently turned out that those twenty million speculations had all been wrong.

Given the endless insinuations of the past year or so, this actually was a development. As if by law, Lemon sent it to the bottom of the pile, complaining that the president hadn't credited CNN for reporting, after all this time, that its endlessly pleasing speculations had been endlessly false.

(He then threw in the point about Trump Junior receiving the dirt. In the business, this is known as Keeping Script Alive.)

This is the way this stupid game has been played for years. Lemon didn't want to bore us rubes with talk about all those health care proposals. Instead, he wanted to talk about the true crime drama his low-IQ corporate network has been endlessly peddling.

He couldn't come out and tell us that he was peddling true crime drama. So he pretended he had a set of "major developments." He then introduced a quartet of hacks prepared to extend the fraud.

This con game has characterized our "mainstream coverage" forever. In October 1999, Candidate Gore and Candidate Bradley staged an erudite discussion of health care in their first Democratic debate.

In the press room, three hundred journalists hissed, jeered and booed every time Gore spoke. (Three major journalists agreed on this astounding report, which everyone else disappeared.) Then the reporting and the the punditry began.

Over at the Washington Post, Mary McGrory had good health care herself and didn't much care if you did. And so, the glorious Pulitzer winner started her column like this:
MCGRORY (10/31/99): Vice President Albert Gore came to his fateful encounter with newly menacing challenger Bill Bradley carrying heavy baggage. He was wearing an outfit that added to his problems when he stepped onstage at Dartmouth College: a brown suit, a gunmetal blue shirt, a red tie—and black boots.

Was it part of his reinvention strategy? Perhaps it was meant to be a ground-leveling statement—"I am not a well-dressed man." It is hard to imagine that he thought to ingratiate himself with the nation's earliest primary voters by trying to look like someone seeking employment at a country music radio station. Maybe it was the first step in shedding his Prince Albert image.
She never discussed the health care proposals. She kept it up in her November 4 column, complaining about the fact that Gore had dared to hire Naomi Wolf as an adviser. "We're told she was responsible for his distracting new suit, a three-button brown affair that caused much nostalgia for navy-blue serge," the award-winning columnist wrote.

Gore's suit had proven distracting that night. Thanks to Wolf, it had three buttons. Also, the suit had been brown!

This is the way these rational animals have played it since the dawn of this era, when they literally hid in the bushes hoping to catch Gary Hart on the prowl.

This is what they've done for more than three decades. This is what Lemon was doing at the start of last evening's pleasing, pointless hour. Prokupecz, Glasser, Mudd and Litman were all happy to serve as Lemon's enablers.

(Way back when, before the brown suit. Glasser joined Ceci Connolly in a pair of crackpot front-page reports about the allegedly crazy ways Candidate Gore was spending big gobs of Big Money. For two real-time reports from this site, you can just click here.)

Last night, it was Mother Russia for the full hour! This is the product the public is sold as the cable nets rake in the cash thanks to Trump. Health care proposals can walk the plank. We the people aren't "rational" enough to see what these creatures are doing.

Aristotle's famous error hides the truth about the functioning of our floundering species. Is it all anthropology now? We expect to see the new year start at this site at the start of next week.

23 comments:

  1. "Don Lemon" is a great name for a high-flying establishment dembot.

    Hmm, come to think of it, I would kinda prefer Signore Limone. There has to be a character in Italian children stories with this name...

    ReplyDelete
  2. It’s fair to criticize the media for not discussing policy proposals. It’s also fair to fault them for too much speculating and hyping of particular stories.

    But there is an essential difference between the trivial complaints about Gore’s clothing and Russian interference in our election and collusion with the Trump campaign. The interference by Russia is a substantial story that goes beyond mere press corps “script.”

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. One other essential difference. Gore really did wear a brown suit, a gunmetal blue shirt, a red tie—and black boots.

      Delete
    2. And Russia really did interfere in our election. Slightly more important than Gore’s clothing.

      Delete
    3. Poor dembots.

      Yes, only the Amazing Superpowers of The Dark Lord Putin could make Americans vote against the old Psycho-Witch.

      Delete
    4. Sure. As long as the results go in your favor, why worry?

      Delete
    5. Yes, dembot. And when they don't - blame the Russkies. We all know the dembot drill.

      Delete
    6. All





      the







      lonely







      people







      where









      do







      they








      all








      come








      from













      ?

      Delete
  3. “We meant that no sensible person could possibly think, at this point, that anything good will ever come from attempts at analysis or information production.”

    It’s certainly easier to forego analysis or information production. So, is this an excuse? It’s also presumptuous. What makes Somerby think that nothing good will come of it? That defeatist attitude becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, perfectly aligned with the interests of those who produce fact-free script. He is surrendering to those interests.

    At least some of his readers appreciate analysis and information. It’s of value to them. And who can predict what effect that analysis and information will have in the long run?

    There’s only so much you can squeeze out of “man isn’t the rational animal; it’s script all the way down.” This view eliminates the possibility of recognizing valuable arguments. It pre-judges everything as “script.”

    ReplyDelete
  4. I am seeking Gordon Jump.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Online essay writing service websites offers top quality writing ideas and suggestions for students to complete the academic writing task before deadline without any worry.

    ReplyDelete
  6. "Was it part of his reinvention strategy? Perhaps it was meant to be a ground-leveling statement—"I am not a well-dressed man."

    A simpler explanation is that his luggage was lost by the airline. Explaining that to an audience would only call more attention to his appearance.

    On the other hand, that other baggage that Gore was toting included some campaign fund-raising scandals, his attempt to distance himself and show disapproval for Bill Clinton's behavior (and his refusal to run on Clinton's record), and Tipper's thoughtless attack on rock and roll. If he was going to run away from Clinton's record, he would need to establish his own accomplishments and those are typically meager for a Vice President. So it was an uphill climb given his own choices during that campaign. Somerby has never acknowledged any of that -- nor has he acknowledged that Gore refused to fight for the presidency when the Republicans stole it in Florida. Those were Gore's choices too, and they were the wrong ones, in my opinion. But Somerby would rather talk about the few articles that addressed Gore's fashion sense.

    By neglecting the substance of the campaign, Somerby repeats the errors of the journalists he singles out. There was plenty of mainstream coverage of Gore's campaign, and some silliness, as there always is. No more and no less in Gore's run. In fact, these articles may have helped to humanize Gore and give him some depth of personality for voters who didn't know him well. It doesn't hurt you to dress like a geek when you are running for President. It hurts you to call out the swears in hip hop.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. "nor has he acknowledged that Gore refused to fight for the presidency when the Republicans stole it in Florida"

      nobody stole anything, dembot, and neither did he 'refuse to fight'.

      He (or, rather, his handlers) insisted on recounting selected 4 counties, instead of recounting the whole state. And that, obviously, didn't play very well with anyone who's not a total zombie.

      But that's nothing like 'refusing to fight'; it's moore like being 'too clever by half', dembot...

      Delete
    2. Who did Gore lose the 2000 Presidential election to?
      (This should be fun).

      Delete
    3. Go read wikipedia or something, dembot.

      Delete
    4. Ha ha ha. I knew Republicans wouldn't know the answer. They are so fucking predictable.

      Delete
    5. For Ebullian tastes.

      Delete
  7. Vashikaran mantra for love is mostly used for those people who face love and relationship problems in their life. Most of time couples face problems in their relationship and this is the reason they face break-ups issues. Many times people face break-ups because of bad energies. This is the reason Pandit Yogesh Shastri provides Vashikaran Mantra For Love after that all couples are happy, Love is the best feeling in life if anykind of bad energies around you so Shastri ji will remove it very fast.
    Must Visit: http://www.vashikaranmantraforlove.com/

    ReplyDelete
  8. Can't still believe that i got cured from Genital Herpes through herbal treatment from Dr LUCKY  who I met through the internet, I actually couldn't believe it at first because it sounded impossible to me knowing how far I have gone just to get rid of it. Dr LUCKY send me his medicine which I took as instructed and here I am living a happy life once again, a big thanks to Dr LUCKY , I am sure there are many herbal doctors out there but Dr LUCKY did it for me, contact him on Email him; { drluckyherbalcure@gmail.com }  

    ReplyDelete
  9. I has suffered for Human papillomavirus HPV) for 2years, I was given some tablets at the hospital but I refused to take it, They said I have to be on it for life so I don't want take a drugs everyday for life. No point in taking medicine everyday when u won't get cure from it and I was advice to seek for natural herbal cure, after some time I found dr onokun is the most trustful herbalist that have herbs to cure wicked symptom's,I emailed dr onokun, for 2weeks been his patient he cured my (HPV) with his herbal. I only used his natural herbs for two weeks it was 100% cure. I'm not (HPV) patient anymore. I'm happy about it i finally got cured out of this mess been in my body for 2years. I also recommend you if you're living with (HPV) or herpes symptoms i also want you to be free contact dr onokun with the email attach to my post. Dronokunherbalcure@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete
  10. LOTTO, lottery,jackpot.
    Hello all my viewers, I am very happy for sharing this great testimonies,The best thing that has ever happened in my life is how I win the lottery euro million mega jackpot. I am a Woman who believe that one day I will win the lottery. finally my dreams came through when I email believelovespelltemple@gmail.com and tell him I need the lottery numbers. I have spend so much money on ticket just to make sure I win. But I never know that winning was so easy until the day I meant the spell caster online which so many people has talked about that he is very great in casting lottery spell, . so I decide to give it a try.I contacted this great Dr Believe and he did a spell and he gave me the winning lottery numbers. But believe me when the draws were out I was among winners. I win 30,000 million Dollar. Dr Believe truly you are the best, all thanks to you forever

    ReplyDelete